Peekfeed is a great (and simple) web tool that allows you to be kept informed of any people engaging with you on Twitter. It also send you a whole wealth of information from the millions of other RSS feeds you choose to select.
Before I go any further, if you are not clear what RSS is - please first read my easy RSS guide, to understand what it is, as it is the basis for this tool.
Now Peekfeed!
First you need to get the RSS Get the RSS feed for your Twitter @ replies.
Go to http://search.twitter.com and enter @username (your Twitter username with an @ sign in front of it -- in my case, for example, that would be @andyheadworth) as the search term.
On the search results page, look for the standard little orange RSS icon and "Feed for this query" link in the upper right. That link is the URL for this particular RSS feed. It will give you all the Twitter tweets that include your username with the @ sign in front of it - all the public Twitter messages that mention you by username or are addressed to you directly.
Using a feedreader like Google Reader (which is brilliant I have to say!) or Bloglines might be the most efficient way for you to keep on top of Twitter. But if you really do need to get your Twitter @replies by email, an RSS-to-email service will do that for you.
And that is where Peekfeed comes in. It lets you choose how often you want to get your email updates - by the minute, hour or day.
However, do be aware that Twitter's own API limits may restrict how often a search can be queried.Depending on how busy your Twitter account is (and how popular you are!) I would suggest setting your emails to arrive a couple of times during the day.
So there you go - you never need to miss a conversation in Twitter again!
